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Moth, August 2023
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Moth, August 2022
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Harper Perennial
August 2023
On Sale: August 15, 2023
352 pages
ISBN: 0063140071
EAN: 9780063140073
Kindle: B08THRQP8L
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Fiction Family Life | Literature and Fiction Literary
“Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming
story, Melody Razak’s debut transports the reader into
the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The
character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists
and turns, you'll truly care what happens to
them.”—The Independent (UK)
A Millions Most Anticipated
Book of 2022 • An Oprah
Daily Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novel of
2022 • A Betches Summer Pick
Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this
internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family’s
trials through the tumultuous partition—the 1947 split
of Pakistan from India—exploring its impact on women,
what it means to be “othered” in one’s own
society, and the redemptive power of family.
Delhi, 1946. Fourteen-year-old Alma is soon to be married
despite her parents’ fear that she is far too young.
But times are perilous in India, where the country’s
long-awaited independence from the British empire heralds a
new era of hope—and danger. In its wake, political
unrest ripples across the subcontinent, marked by violent
confrontations between Hindus and Muslims. The conflict
threatens to unravel the rich tapestry of Delhi—a city
where different cultures, religions, and traditions have co-
existed for centuries. The solution is partition, which will
create a new, wholly Muslim, sovereign
nation—Pakistan—carved from India’s
northwestern shoulder. Given the uncertain times,
Alma’s parents, intellectuals who teach at the local
university, pray that marriage will provide Alma with
stability and safety.
Alma is precocious and headstrong, and her excitement
over the wedding rivals only her joy in spinning wild
stories about evil spirits for her younger sister Roop. But
when Alma’s grandmother—a woman determined to
protect the family’s honor no matter the
cost—interferes with the engagement, her meddling sets
off a chain of events that will wrench the family apart,
forcing its members to find new and increasingly desperate
ways to survive in the wake of partition.
Set during the most tumultuous years in modern Indian
history, Melody Razak recreates the painful turmoil of a
rupturing nation and its reverberations across the fates of
a single family. Powerfully evocative and
atmospheric, Moth is a testament to survival and a
celebration of the beauty and resilience of the human
spirit.
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